plans

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a6b65dd	"Ester asked why people are sad. "That's simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."	future sadness happiness life plans	Paulo Coelho
00b6a85	"Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. "You have a plan?" Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say, "	plans reyna the-son-of-neptune percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-heroes-of-olympus	Rick Riordan
22c5b6f	There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.	success inspirational plans goals	Will Smith
e8963d9	All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.	mice-men unpredictability plans planning	Arthur C. Clarke
6311925	The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways-and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.	fear change love truth day behavior plans conversation waiting tension	Paulo Coelho
2ed18ed	"TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most."	words dreams success life inspirational plans	Napoleon Hill
7448edf	When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).	god life inspirational schedule will-of-god plans purpose	Elisabeth Elliot
37f7f7c	"That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?"	plans hiccup toothless ziggerastica	Cressida Cowell
2c82744	We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up.	change life moving-forward plans grace vitality	Joseph Campbell
388dcb3	As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.	world life plans guns ideas weapons safety protection	Colson Whitehead
ba8ecd2	Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.	jodi-picoult lone-wolf plans goals	Jodi Picoult
1ab0167	I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best. There, gentlemen, since you wanted to know how I was getting on, I have told you. Much good may it do you! I cannot explain further here. I perceive there is something wrong somewhere in our social formulas: what it is can only be discovered by men or women with greater insight than mine--if, indeed, they ever discover it-- at least in our time. 'For who knoweth what is good for man in this life?--and who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?	youth life plans	Thomas Hardy
fda4975	"Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans."	plans	Orson Scott Card
8564f82	... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.	mankind man mind philosophical grand-plans imprisionment imprison when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart christopher-marlowe faustian faustus marlowe sad-but-true plans planning faust	E.A. Bucchianeri
5839b0b	Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.	light freedom meaning reason darkness optimism heart truth falsehood optimists public scheme schemes unreason feeling feel plans debate plan equal believe vitality nonsense	Roger Scruton
cf2644d	Sometimes it's just true that other people have better ideas for your life than you do.	plans	Elizabeth Gilbert
46107b0	"Good," said Creed. "I always like it when a captain has a plan; makes getting killed a lot less random."	plans	Raymond E. Feist
7c0acb4	Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.	travel plans thinking planning	Max Barry

a6b65dd

"Ester asked why people are sad. "That's simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."

future sadness happiness life plans

Paulo Coelho

00b6a85

"Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. "You have a plan?" Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say, "

plans reyna the-son-of-neptune percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-heroes-of-olympus

Rick Riordan

22c5b6f

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

success inspirational plans goals

Will Smith

e8963d9

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

mice-men unpredictability plans planning

Arthur C. Clarke

6311925

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways-and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

fear change love truth day behavior plans conversation waiting tension

Paulo Coelho

2ed18ed

"TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most."

words dreams success life inspirational plans

Napoleon Hill

7448edf

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

god life inspirational schedule will-of-god plans purpose

Elisabeth Elliot

37f7f7c

"That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?"

plans hiccup toothless ziggerastica

Cressida Cowell

2c82744

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up.

change life moving-forward plans grace vitality

Joseph Campbell

388dcb3

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.

world life plans guns ideas weapons safety protection

Colson Whitehead

ba8ecd2

Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.

jodi-picoult lone-wolf plans goals

Jodi Picoult

1ab0167

I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best. There, gentlemen, since you wanted to know how I was getting on, I have told you. Much good may it do you! I cannot explain further here. I perceive there is something wrong somewhere in our social formulas: what it is can only be discovered by men or women with greater insight than mine--if, indeed, they ever discover it-- at least in our time. 'For who knoweth what is good for man in this life?--and who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

youth life plans

Thomas Hardy

fda4975

"Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans."

plans

Orson Scott Card

8564f82

... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

mankind man mind philosophical grand-plans imprisionment imprison when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart christopher-marlowe faustian faustus marlowe sad-but-true plans planning faust

E.A. Bucchianeri

5839b0b

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.

light freedom meaning reason darkness optimism heart truth falsehood optimists public scheme schemes unreason feeling feel plans debate plan equal believe vitality nonsense

Roger Scruton

cf2644d

Sometimes it's just true that other people have better ideas for your life than you do.

plans

Elizabeth Gilbert

46107b0

"Good," said Creed. "I always like it when a captain has a plan; makes getting killed a lot less random."

plans

Raymond E. Feist

7c0acb4

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

travel plans thinking planning

Max Barry